› added 10 years ago

157

TIL the Oh My God Particle, an ultra high energy particle (a billion times more energy than the LHC’s output) that travels so absurdly fast, time dilation dictates that it would have experienced 16 days of time since the beginning of the universe

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

YpKvA TIL Horses have blind spots on the front and back of their body. Keeping a hand on their body while walking around them decreases chances of kicking out of shock or fear.
R7LQ8 TIL Safer Internet Day is an Internet risk awareness day held every second day of the second week of February in the European Union. It conducts awareness campaigns focusing on issues related to cyberbullying, child pornography & pedophilia online, sexting, loss of privacy, sedentary lifestyle, etc.
ZZLo TIL The actors in ‘Alien’ were not told about the alien chestbursting out of the body, causing one actress to pass out and another actor to nearly have a heart attack after having a few gallons of animal parts exploded onto their bodies.
9YJ4m TIL About the "Great Cat Massacre" In 17th century Paris a group of apprentices, angered that they were treated worse than cats, imitated the felines screeching all night. The master ordered the noisy cats killed. The apprentices held a trial, convicted the cats of witchcraft, and hung them.
nexLd TIL that the Royal Air Force, in order to hide their success of identifying Luftwaffe bombers at night, made up a story about how carrots are good for eyesight. This was done so Germany wouldn’t know it was radar. A story told almost 80 years ago is why people still believe this myth today.